Local and National ICE Out Protests Grow On Jan. 31, thousands of protesters across the United States demonstrated against the federal government’s immigration detention centers, enforcement [...] Continue Reading
Immigration
Road Rage: Driving County Policy Off a Cliff
Nuts and Bolts What nuts-and-bolts tasks has the Fresno County Board of Supervisors managed to accomplish within the past month? Routine administrative actions include staffing the Office of [...] Continue Reading
Memorial Bike Ride for Alex Pretti
BY BEN MAIDEN Alex Pretti, the ICU nurse killed on Jan. 24 by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis, loved mountain bike riding. More than 200 memorial rides took place to honor him across [...] Continue Reading
ICE: A Chronicle of Violence and Death
“She Was an Amazing Human Being” The fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross on Jan. 7 in Minneapolis has led to outrage and anger across the United States and around the [...] Continue Reading
Mayor Makes Controversial Remarks at MLK Event
In a speech to a crowd of 1,000 at the Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration in downtown Fresno on Jan. 19, Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer, also the former police chief of the city, seemed to blame protesters [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
Two events of national and international importance shook the progressive community in January. U.S. forces kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela on Jan. 3. Maduro might not have been the [...] Continue Reading
A Lonesome and Unnecessary Death
According to the recent Congressional testimony (Dec. 17, 2025) of former special prosecutor Jack Smith, Donald Trump was the “most culpable and most responsible person” for the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol [...] Continue Reading
County Supervisors Contradict Constituents on ICE
“We’re deeply concerned that Fresno County supervisors held a [Jan. 13] press conference to support ICE, while ignoring the real harm ICE raids are doing in tearing families apart across the Central [...] Continue Reading
Budget Cuts Proposed for Medi-Cal
(Editor’s note: This story is a product of the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative.) Undocumented immigrants in California will bear the brunt of reductions in healthcare and nutrition programs [...] Continue Reading
A “Good” Girl (Una chica buena)
POR MARITZA FÉLIX (Nota del Editor: se reproduce este artículo con la correspondiente autorización de Hispanicla.com) No han pasado ni dos semanas de este 2026 y nuestro mundo se ha colapsado [...] Continue Reading
California Values Act and the TRUTH Act
In a Merced Sun-Star interview (Oct. 1, 2025) following his brief presentation (on Sept. 9, 2025) to the Merced County Board of Supervisors, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke dismissed the California [...] Continue Reading
The Icemen Cometh
In the 1939 play The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill, the “iceman” symbolizes a harsh truth that dispels illusions. In our time, the ICE branch of the federal government, along with the Border [...] Continue Reading